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[Die Welt] 70 percent of companies affected by power outages



According to a new survey, many companies in Germany are dealing with power outages. For some of them, the cost is in the hundreds of thousands. Many companies never find out the true causes of the shortage.



According to a survey last year, short-term power outages frequently led to production downtimes and machine damage at German companies. This is shown by a random survey conducted by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) among 1,000 companies from various industries and regions. The results of the survey are available exclusively to WELT AM SONNTAG.


Accordingly, 28 percent of the responding companies stated that they had been affected by power outages that lasted longer than three minutes. 42 percent confirmed power outages lasting less than three minutes. Power outages of less than three minutes are not recorded by the Federal Network Agency and are not included in the so-called SAIDI value, which is an internationally recognized measure of the voltage quality in the power grid.


However, power interruptions lasting just a few seconds can cause damage to precision industrial machines. “The problems extend across all voltage levels and inevitably lead to economic damage,” is the result of the DIHK survey: For a third (32 percent), the power outages caused additional costs of up to 10,000 euros. For 15 percent of those surveyed, the costs of power outages amounted to 10,000 to 100,000 euros. A small proportion (2 percent) even had costs of more than 100,000 euros.



In response to power fluctuations, seven percent of companies set up emergency generators last year to cover peak loads and eleven percent set up energy storage systems. “Concern about power outages is often the reason for one’s own safety measures,” commented the DIHK. According to the survey, the exact cause of the power outages is mostly unclear. Two thirds of companies do not know the reason for the difficulties in their own operations. “As long as companies do not know the causes of the majority of power outages, doubts about the reliability of the networks will grow,” warned DIHK deputy general manager Achim Dercks.



The IHK organization therefore proposes a right to information about the causes of power outages and revising the compensation regulations. “It would also be important,” says Dercks, “that the Federal Network Agency conduct random monitoring of power outages lasting less than 3 minutes.”
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Mängelmanagement it is called: defect management.



What they dont say is that just a few years ago such interruptions were practially unknown as long as not being the result of thunderstorm damages or accidents.
And as I have wirtten in the aostm, over the past ten years or so micro blackouts are becoming more and more th enorm in this private household and in my street as well. Lets say around 15 years ago this was too absolutely unknown.



Two reasons: the increasing deregulation of the powergrid over the past two decades, and of course the irraitonal Germ,an "Energiewende" that has switched off power production capacities without having replaced them with other sources first.